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Why Is Long-Term Therapy Required to Cure Tuberculosis?

The authors argue that understanding and countering general bacterial mechanisms of phenotypic antibiotic resistance may hold the key to reducing the duration of treatment of all recalcitrant bacterial infections, including tuberculosis.

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Autores principales: Connolly, Lynn E, Edelstein, Paul H, Ramakrishnan, Lalita
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17388672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040120
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spelling pubmed-18317432007-03-24 Why Is Long-Term Therapy Required to Cure Tuberculosis? Connolly, Lynn E Edelstein, Paul H Ramakrishnan, Lalita PLoS Med Research in Translation The authors argue that understanding and countering general bacterial mechanisms of phenotypic antibiotic resistance may hold the key to reducing the duration of treatment of all recalcitrant bacterial infections, including tuberculosis. Public Library of Science 2007-03 2007-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC1831743/ /pubmed/17388672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040120 Text en © 2007 Connolly et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Connolly, Lynn E
Edelstein, Paul H
Ramakrishnan, Lalita
Why Is Long-Term Therapy Required to Cure Tuberculosis?
title Why Is Long-Term Therapy Required to Cure Tuberculosis?
title_full Why Is Long-Term Therapy Required to Cure Tuberculosis?
title_fullStr Why Is Long-Term Therapy Required to Cure Tuberculosis?
title_full_unstemmed Why Is Long-Term Therapy Required to Cure Tuberculosis?
title_short Why Is Long-Term Therapy Required to Cure Tuberculosis?
title_sort why is long-term therapy required to cure tuberculosis?
topic Research in Translation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17388672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040120
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